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No, but my congressman isn't much better. He's an embarrassment too. Mr. Chick enjoys going to his local town halls which draw predominantly an audience of people who think he sucks. But he stacks the Q&A with retirees asking about Social Security and Medicare.

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My dream is Donald Trump coming in third.

The Republican leadership ought to just be happy he's likely too old to run again in 2000. Because Trump completely owns them in Republican primaries.

Next time they just have to worry about Peter Thiel.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

And me. Those fuckers better worry about me. I'm a loose cannon and I like to grab a little you-know-what. 'Cuz I'm a star! ;) ;) ;)

Here is some laid back Cymande. "Brother on the Slide." Today's Daily Dose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZP2Uk9vlxY

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

And perhaps you can expose a greater audience to an evolution of your old theme: Blow Me For America. Perhaps: Blow Me To Make America Great Again.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Wasn't that Less?

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2. Flower never solicited.

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That's right! His was unsolicited, women just came up and did it.

It's amazing the crap from this board that I can recall with almost photographic clarity, like how Chef used Q-tips to clean his ears, and the things I have forgotten.

In any case, I am sure that a Flower/Less ticket could compromise on a slogan.

ETA that I vaguely recall a reference to crusty Dockers, but I may be making that up. In any case, it's still way less gross than Trump.

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I believe the full phrase was "unsolicited, no-strings-attached fellatio." People always focused on the "unsolicited" part, but for me, the magic is in the "no-stings-attached."

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

No stings at the very fucking least.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

True dat. That is a lower bar than I intended to set.

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Interesting Perspective
 

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reason...e-talks-about/

TM

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

Okay, but Charles Murray will tell you that hard work and families are values that are actually better expressed in those blue areas.

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

Well, yeah, except for the rural areas that are heavily minority in the South and Southwest, and a few other places, and except for large sections of the more "urban" burbs that are full of reds....

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

nm

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Look at those perfect, tiny-fingered, P-grabbing hands!

It's James Brown Thursday on the Daily Dose. For your listening pleasure, Brother Rapp, Pts. 1 and 2. The Collins brothers keep the groove flowing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-NqaT75Xkc

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

what does this mean?

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

Paul Ryan's Song

First they game for the immigrants,
And I did nothing because immigrants vote Dem anyways,
Then they came for the trans,
And I did nothing because, hey, trans?! Ick.
Then they came for voting rights,
And I gave a hand because, hey, blacks voting can't be good,
Then they came for the women,
And I did nothing because repeal the 19th has a nice ring to it,
Then they came for the Republicans...
What!!! Wait a minute! Oh Shit!

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

Murray's right, but his geography's off a bit. The affluent everywhere are doing better because, as I think he cites elsewhere in his explanation, they engage in assortative mating.

With the exception of one night stands and Vegas, social climbers don't fuck downward. When committing, they demand the badges telecasting a spouse of equal footing on the social ladder. This phenomenon obviously isn't limited to cities.

We're segregating into a top 20-30% and a bottom 70-80%. We all kind of knew this for a long time, but the demarcation is becoming steeper, and Trump's put a hell of a spotlight on it.

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I know it won't make a difference, but I have to try... So, um, please vote for Johnson. Pretty please?

He's polling nationally at 9%. If he can get into double digits, that's a huge boost to Libertarianism. Sure, he's not a real Libertarian. I get that. But nobody is. Nobody's a "real" anything because govt inevitably requires compromise. Every vote for Johnson (or Stein, is you've Green sympathies) is a vote against the two party system that's given us this pair of deplorable pieces of shit from which to choose.

McMullin is a bespoke Utah candidate. A vote for him is a novelty vote. It is truly throwing away your ballot. Johnson and Weld may not be exactly what you demand or expect, but they're closer than anybody else on the stage, and they get that word we're all forgetting... that word that progressives and right-wingers ignore... back into the election lexicon: "Liberty."

I'm happily and proudly voting for Johnson, clueless as he might be. I'd implore you to do the same. Because in case you aren't paying attention, you have a quasi-criminal statist cipher running against a con man with dictatorial leanings. You think it's going to get any better next cycle? You probably think the choice couldn't be any shittier than these two. You're wrong. It can, and it will. If a third party doesn't emerge, we're fucked. Johnson and Stein are carrying the flags of the only alternative parties which can put reasonable numbers on the board. I view the decision to vote for one of the two of them as the only logical and ethically defensible choice.

Johnson 2016. Or Stein 2016. Do what you know is right.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I will say that I struggled really hard with voting Johnson. The Libertarians that I do like acknowledge that he sucks (though Weld is worse) and have begged me to vote for him to help the cause of Libertarianism in the future. Seriously, if they'd nominated Peterson, or even Ron Paul, I'd be all over it. No promises, but it remains a persuasive argument that I will continue to consider. Either way, my vote won't matter, but I also would like the Libertarians to be motivated to nominate a better candidate. It's not even the Aleppo stuff, it's just seems that Johnson doesn't appear to 'get' a lot of Libertarian values.

Re: Interesting Perspective
 

He's right that the stereotype of amoral affluence is wrong. He's wrong about everything else.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

You wild-eyed optimist, you.

The only way a third party will emerge is if conservatives leave the GOP to the Trumpist racists. Which will mean ceding a bunch of elections to the Dems for awhile.

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This is why there will never be a successful American third party, other than one that is stepping into a void left by one of the two main parties disintegrating.

Third party voters are a very dispersed lot. Mormon conservatives sure ain't libertarians sure ain't vac-truther eco-nuts sure ain't alt-right neo-nazis (who will be back to third party wanna bes if they fail in their current quest to take over the Rs).

At the end of the day, they're all irrelevant, interesting mostly as curiosities.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

If that occurs, whatever new party the conservatives call home will ultimately take over from the Republicans, but probably only after the alt-right goes on a spree of violence that will make the lynching years look tame.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

We're not going to get a meaningful third party because our Constitution essentially establishes a two-party system. Congressional districts and Senate seats are single seats going to the winner, and this means that voting for a third party is pissing away your vote. A third party that wins 20% everywhere will not be represented in the government, and people will stop voting for it quickly. The only way a third party is going to get any traction is if it can get a majority of voters in some region, and in our country that will mean the South, which I suspect is not the kind of third party you want.

What you really want is a new GOP, one that decides that it can't win on its Trumpist slide and goes in a different direction. To get it, you should vote for Democrats until the GOP comes around.

An easy path to a Trump victory
 

http://67.media.tumblr.com/ef53cd22e...zoto1_1280.png

TM

Re: An easy path to a Trump victory
 

Yeah. We need to open some borders. For the good of all of us.

Re: An easy path to a Trump victory
 

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

A thought I've not been able to articulate fully: the reaction to Trump's alleged groping from the right reveals something about how much some people care about sexual assault. Like, the only thing that matters about the effect on politics. The Clinton accusers are valuable because they can help Trump, so the thinking goes, and the Trump accusers are liars trying to offset it. As if the underlying conduct isn't the issue.

It's the same as racism. They think it's just a thing that libtard accuse them to score political points.

Some actual conservatives have learned from Trump that this isn't true. Has anyone learned anything about how we treat women?

Re: An easy path to a Trump victory
 

Or, in the alternative, you could let only women vote and it would look pretty much the same.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Read this. People's views about particular issues are often formed by their political allegiances.

Re: An easy path to a Trump victory
 

It doesn't really need to be either/or now, does it?

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I'll say it: The Access Hollywood thing has 0.0000 impact on me. I vote on policy. Trump has few, and those he does have change by the week. Clinton also has no policies save those whatever crowd she's in front of at the moment wants to hear. And she'll raise taxes. I don't care that her husband is a sex fiend.

If Trump wasn't a mess, and had good policies, I'd vote for him. If Hillary did, I'd vote for her. His and her spouse's deviant behaviors are selling points for low information voters. It's gross, yes, but whatever. We've got a lot more important shit to worry about than the lurid sexual brags and cigar-cunnilingus of a pair of old men.

Our country's heading into a recession. We have no tools left to fix this. And we're talking about... dirty old men. Fuck us. As Mencken noted, our frivolous population deserves to get the fruits of its democracy... good and hard

Re: An easy path to a Trump victory
 

http://i2.wp.com/espnfivethirtyeight...ll&w=575&ssl=1

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I was going to write a whole big response, but then I came to my fucking senses.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I mean, it had zero impact on me too, but that doesn't make it not appalling and disqualifying. Especially now that there are accounts of him actually doing what he said he does.

Which, of course, leads someone like me to have to ponder whether we'd vote again for Bill Clinton in today's world. I'd like to think not, but I might be fooling myself.

You need to read Ty's link and apply some introspection.

It would have been much shorter to write, "I do not care about women being sexually assaulted."

Like, perhaps the safety of women?

As usual, your economic predictions are crap.

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This is the loopiest thing you have said in quite some time. Go nuts reading all of this, and thank me later.

eta: The bigger point is that unless the House and Senate flip, she has no chance of getting legislation passed, so it may not matter. Happily, Trump's implosion may give us a government prepared to do something.

eat: Krugman today:

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